The best $100 I ever spent for fun

9:57 PM,
May 25, 2012

Written by

PHIL BALL

Some time in the ancient past, maybe 50 years ago, I bought a canoe. This canoe was purchased from the boat store along West Kilgore Avenue that was owned by the Honorable Ray Lanum. Ray saw that I was a poor but hardworking doctor, and he only charged me maybe 100 bucks for that canoe. OK.

Mr. Lanum went on to other work later. For instance, he was head of our Muncie park system for some years, and he moved his residency to various Muncie locations, and as of now, he lives right next door to me, so I have to be diplomatic.

That $100 canoe was 17 feet long, made of aluminum, and had a small two inch keel, which ...